In the game year 2481, the homin races were decimated when the hostile, insect-like Kitins were accidentally released from their home deep within Atys's root system. The Kami are depicted as elusive, chaotic, playful, and highly protective of Atys, while the Karavan are more secretive and have never been shown outside their environmental suits or far from their machinery. Interacting benevolently with all four homin cultures, but hostile towards each other, were two additional and far more advanced races: the magical Kami and the technological Karavan.
There are huge seas, wastelands, caves, and so on.įour distinct humanoid races, or “homins,” came to exist on Atys hundreds of years prior to the game's current timeline and developed into separate, fairly isolated societies in their own favored ecosystems. The whole planet (Atys) is one gigantic plant/tree! Don't worry though, it's not all brown-and-green organic stuff. The design and setting is pretty unique too. Just upload your "level" to the server, and it's accessible on Ring terminals throughout the game for other players. You can either be an invisible game master/god that controls NPCs, monsters, and triggers in realtime, or you can be part of the advenure itself as one of the players for added fun. Of course you first need to go out into the world of Ryzom - you only start out with a handful of building blocks. Design your own quest, choose and modify the location, position monsters and NPCs, set triggers, dig through your stash for rewards and treasures - you have full control. This is probably the most ambitious aspect of the game. Huge armies of enemies can attack entire regions at once - which must be countered by a cooperative player effort to kill their boss. hundreds of computer-controlled enemies in the same area. Seasons, weather and day/night cycles affect that too (there's rain, fog, snow, the occasional storm, sunny days, starry nights, and so on.).īe prepared to face entire invasion armies of bloodthirsty aliens on some occasions thanks to the RAID (Realtime Army Invasion Deployment) engine: it allows for combat involving hundreds of players vs. You won't see wolves and sheep happily living together, that's for sure.Įach species behaves slightly differently, not only in combat, but also "in real life". The devs spent considerable manpower to make the world feel. In Ryzom, Monsters prey upon each other, migrate, etc. How is Ryzom different from your average MMORPG? If you're like me and still have an old installation/client floating around from some time ago, just download the Ryzom fixer from the Forums or manually add some lines to a text file and let the game updater take care of the rest.īored? Well, why not read through my incoherent babbling while your download finishes? There's some neat stuff there, like music, wallpapers and artwork. roughly 10000 last time I checked.Īlso, get the manual and have a look at the goodies section on their website. Hurry up though - there's only a limited amount of accounts left. The installer is roughly 1.6 GB, so you'll need to waste some time, but hey, you can take care of the user registration while you wait (no credit card required). Rudimentary knowledge of either English, German, or French in its written form. Nvidia Geforce 2 or equivalent video card with 64 MB RAM You need to be at least this tall to become a french alien:
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